Brick.



No. 724,288. l PATENTED MAR. 31, 1903. G. HERING.

BRIGK.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. 23. 1902.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OEETCE.

GEORGE IIERING, OE NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK.

BRICK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 724,288, dated March 31, 1908.

Application filed December 23, 1902. Serial No. 136.320. (No model.)

To a'ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE HERIN e, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New Rochelle, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Brick, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved brick designed for uselas a face-brick on walls of buildings, chimneys, and the like and arranged to protect the longitudinal as well as the Vertical mortar or cement joints against rain, sleet, and the like and to insure quick running off of the water from the face of the wall to prevent interior dampness.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in al1 the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the` iniprovement. Eig. 2 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a chimney faced with the improvement. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the same on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a plan view of one of the corner-bricks having the right-hand end beveled, and Fig. 6 is a like view of another corner-brick having the left-hand end beveled.

The bricks presently to be described in detail are mainly used as face-bricks for the outer walls of buildings, chimneys, tbc., while ordinary bricks are used as filling-in bricks to give the wall the desired thickness.

The body A of each face-brick is of suitable material and size and is provided with a beveled face A', slanting downwardly and outwardly from the top of the body A to within a short distance of the bottom face thereof to form a vertical face portion A2, which overhangs the longitudinal joint B next below, so that rain, sleet, or the like striking the beveled face A readily runs down the same and drops on? at the lower edge of the vertical face portion A2 without touching the joint B, thus preventing injury to the same. Each end A3 of the beveled face A' is beveled inwardly to the front edge A4 of the corresponding end A5 of the body A, so that rain, sleet, and the like striking the beveled ends A8 tend to run downwardly and forwardly away from the vertical joint O between adjacent bricks in a tier. The rear face A6 as well as the ends A5 of the body A are straight vertical faces, the same as in ordinary bricks.

For the corner of a wall right and left hand corner-bricks are required alternately for the succeeding tiers,- as indicated in Fig. 3--that is, one corner-brick has its right-hand end A7 beveled (see Fig. 5) and the next following corner-brick (see Fig. 6) has its left-hand end AS beveled, and the beveled face A9 of each l corner-brick is only beveled at the end adjaf cent to the vertical non-beveled end A10, as will be readily understood by reference to the drawings.

Now from the foregoing it will be seen that the longitudinal joints B, as well as the vertical joints O, are properly protected against rain, sleet, and the like, and the water can freely run o of the face-bricks, insuring long life of the wall, chimney, or the like.

A coping I) for the chimney is projected a suitable distance beyond the top tier of bricks, as indicated in the drawings, to protect the top longitudinal mortar or cement joint between the coping and the outermost tier of bricks. l

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters i Patentl. A brick having a beveled face, beveled at the ends, as set forth.

` 2. A brick having a beveled front face, the bevel terminating a short distance from the vbottom of the brick and the beveled face having its ends beveled, as set forth. v

3. A corner-brick having a beveled face and one end beveled, as set forth.

4. A corner-brick having a beveled face, the bevel at one end of the brick and the end of the face opposite the beveled end being beveled, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my 'name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE HERING.

Witnesses:

HOWARD S. MEIGHAN, MARION SPADER. 

